Display-fixture



C. N. CAHUSAC.

DISPLAY FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-3| I920.

1,358,41 5 Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

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CLARENCE N. CAI-IUSAC, 0F JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIG'NOR T'O UNIVERSAL FIXTURE CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DISPLAY-FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

Application filed. August 3, 1920. Serial No. 401,004.

T 0 all to item it may concern Be it known that l, CLARENCE NOEL CA- HUSAC, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in display fixtures and has for its general object the provision of simple and inexpensive means for effectively displaying a plurality of articles or article containers. The improved fixture is particularly adapted for removably supporting a plurality of boxed music rolls for player pianos in such manner that the usual printed inscriptions on the ends of the boxes may be easily read and so that any one of the boxes may be readily re ioved. It will be obvious, however, that articles and containers of various kinds may be supported in the fixture.

in the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a display fixture showing the preferred embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 2 a side elevation;

Fig. 3 a horizontal section on the line llllll of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4': a fragmentary vertical longitudinal section on the line lVIV of Fig. 2'; and

Fig. 5 a fragmentary side elevation of one of the bracing bars for the articlesupporting rods.

The fixture comprises two end sections each of which consists of two hollow or tubular metal corner posts 1 and 2, connected adjacent their upper and lower ends by two short hollow or tubular metallic members 3 which are preferably welded at their ends to the vertical posts 1 and 2 and an intermediate hollow or tubular metal post l which is preferably welded at its ends to the horizontal. tubes 8. T he corner posts are pre eralialy threaded or otherwise secured to suitable metal base members 5. lhe two end sections thus formed each comprises a rigid skeleton end frame the elements of whico are permanently connected together and form a substantially integral metal frame of vertically elongated rectangular form.

Three hollow metal connecting members or horizontal frame tubes 6 extend between the vertical posts 1. 2 and l of the end sections adjacent both the upper and lower ends of sections together screws or bolts 8 are passed through the posts and threaded in the sleeves or bushings 7. I also prefer to employ a pair of crossed tierods or tension members 9 at the rear of the fixture each of which has hook-shaped ends separably connected with different ends of different rear corner posts 1. The hook ends of the tie rods engage in apertures in the corner posts, as shown in Fig. 4:, and each tie rod is divided into two sections connected by a turnbuckle 10.

The music roll containing boxes 11 or other articles are removably supported in the main frame of the fixture or rack in vertical and horizontal rows by means of three vertical series of metal rods or bars extending between the three pairs of end posts 1, 2 and t, the opposite ends of each rod eX- tending loosely through apertures in the innor walls of its two supporting posts and terminating within the posts, as shown. The rods are thus rigidly held in place when the parts of the main frame are connected together but may be readily disconnected from the posts when the members of the knockdown main frame are disconnected.

The series of rods 12 supported by the front corner posts 2 are spaced apart equal distances throughout the series. The intermediate series of rods 13 supported by posts at are divided into two groups, the rods of the upper group being located in the same horizontal plane as adjacent rods 12 and the rods of the lower group being located in horizontal planes substantially midway the planes of the remaining rods 12.

li ith this arrangement each pair of rods 12 and 13 in the upper portion of the fixture will support a row of boxes in a horizontal plane with the ends thereof having the title or label facing the front of the fixture and in a vertical plane so that the title, label or printed matter on the ends of the boxes may be easily read and each box easily withdrawn from the rack. As each one of the lower group of rods 13 is in alower plane than associated rod 12, it will be obvious that each pair of rods 12 and 13 in the lower portion of the rack will support a row of boxes in a rearwardly and downwardly in clined plane, with the title or label carrying ends of the boxes facing outwardly and upwardly, so that the titles or labels maybe easily read by a person standing in front of the rack without stooping and so that the lower boxes may be readily withdrawn by a natural upward and outward pull.

in order to limit the rearward movement of the boxes in the rack 1 provide the rear vertical series of rods 1seach of which is located in a plane intermediate the planes of the adjacent pairs of supporting rods 12 and 13 so that the rear ends of the boxes will abut against said rods 14. I prefer to locate posts 1 and the intermediate series of rods 13 closer to posts 1 and roos 14' than to the posts 2 and rods 12, as shown, in order to provide a better support for the boxes.

To brace the three vertical series of rods or bars 12, 13 and 14: against vertical and lateral flexing, I prefer to provide one or more bracing members or metal bars 15 for each vertical series of rods. Each bar 15 is separably connected at its ends with two of the tubular frame members 6 by means of openings 16 in the ends thereof through which said frame members extend, and said bar is also provided with a vertical series of small apertures 17 through which the rods extend.

it will be observed that the tie rods 9, the longitudinal frame members 6, and the various rods 12, 13 and 1 1 may be readily disconnected from the end sections of the fixture, that the rods 12, 13 and 14 may be readily disconnected from the brace bars 15, and that the brace bars 15 may be readily separated from the frame members 6, so that the fixture may be taken apart and packed for shipment in a long, narrow and fiat rectangular crate or the like.

What 1 claim is:

1. A skeleton display rack comprising end sections, and a plurality of vertical series of horizontally extending members supported at their ends by said end sections, said members being so arranged that each member of one series will limit the movement ofanarticle endwise and one member of each of the remaining series will support the article, a plurality of the upper mem-' bers of said remaining series being located in parallel horizontal planes the other members of said series-being located in inclined planes.

2. A display rack comprising two unitary rend frames, a plurality of rigid horizontal frame members detachably connected at their ends to the end frames adjacent the upper and lower ends of said frames, a plurality of verticalrows of horizontal article supporting members each of said article supporting members being separably held at its ends in said end frames, and a vertical brace bar for each row of article-supporting members detachably held at its ends to one pair of the horizontal frame members intermediate the ends of said frame members and provided with a vertical series'of apertures through which the article-supporting members extend.

3. A display rack comprising end frames, horizontal frame members connecting the end frames together adjacent the upper and lower ends thereof, each of said end frames havingthroe vertical posts ri idly connected together with the intermediate post closer to one of the outer posts than the other, and three vertical series of horizontal rods connected at their ends with the vertical posts of the end frames, the rear row of rods being staggered relatively to the intermediate row of rods and a plurality of the lowermost rods of the intermediate series being staggered relatively to both the forward and. rear series of rods.

display rack comprising end frames each having three vertical posts rigidly connected together by side members, three horizonta-l longitudinal frame members adjacent both the lower and upper ends of the end frames and connected th rewith in aline- 'ment with said posts, and three vertical rows of horizontal rods extending between the posts of the endframes and connected with said posts at their ends, the two forward rows of rods forming spaced supports for the under sides of articles and the rear row of rods being located in planes intermediate the planes of the cooperating pairs of artidesupporting rods to engage the rear ends of articles supported by the two forward rows of rods.

A display rack comprising end frames each having three vertical posts rigidly connected together by side members, three horizontal longitudinal frame members adjacent both the lower and upper ends of the end frames and connected therewith in alinement with said posts, three vertical rows of horizontal rods extending between the posts of the end frames and connected with said posts at their ends, the two forward rows of rods forming spaced supports for the under sides of articles and the rear row of rods being located in planes intermediate the planes of the cooperating pairs of arti ole-supporting rods to engage the rear ends of articles supported by the two forward rows of rods, and vertical bracing bars con nected at their ends with the upper and 7 lower longitudinal frame members and supporting said rods intermediate the ends of the rods.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aiiix my signature. I

CLARENCE N. CAHUSAC. 

